108 



Wing $ 660 mm. ; plumage black, with 

 back, rump and some of the scapulars 

 white ; immature fawn colour, tail uniform. 



tl84. Aquila chrysaetos chrysaetos {Linn.), S.N. i., Europe, S. to 



p. 88 (1758). [Europe = Sweden, apud Pyrenees; 



Hartert.] Asia Minor. 

 Golden Eagle. 



Wing S 590-625, ? 650-660 mm. ; general 

 plumage above blackish- brown, with paler 

 margins ; crown brown ; nape and hind 

 neck tawny rufous ; tail blackish at apical 

 fourth, browner towards base, middle ir- 

 regularly banded with grey ; below black- 

 ish with brown bases to the feathers ; in 

 younger birds basal half of tail white, centre 

 mottled brown, apical third black ; nape 

 paler. 



|184a. Aqiiila chrysaetos occidentaiis, Olphe-Galli- 

 ard, Faune Orn. Eur. Occ, ii., fasc. xviii., 

 p. 23 (Mar. 1889). {Spain.^ 

 Spanish Golden Eagle. 



Wing cJ 580-600, $615-680 mm. ; averaging 

 smaller ; plumage darker and duller. 



Spain and 

 N. Africa 

 (Marocco, 

 Algeria, 

 Tunisia). 



1 184b. Aquila chrysaetos daphanea, Hodgs. in High Central 



Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 81 (1844). [Nom. Asia: 



nud. — Nepal.] Menz. Orn. Turkest, 1, p. 75 Himalayas to 



(1888). [Haute Asie.] Tianschau and 



Himalayan Golden Eagle. Altai. 



Larger ; wing <S 640-660, ? 680-730 mm. ; 

 colour generally brighter. 



